Start March.
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:It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started on the Muppet Show tonight!
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Michiganman14: It's time to unleash Stauskas.
B-Nut-GoBlue: It's time to seed B1G right.
:It's time for photoshopping and Tom Crean memes tonight!
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LSAClassof2000: How did we ever come here? I guess we hit hit field goals!
Jonvalk: Imagine life with Horford, if Morgan chose to go?
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L'Carpetron Dookmariot: It's time lacrosse got started.
MGoBlueline: When will hockey get started?
[Jump: a board full of grouchy old hecklers]
: Yaaayyyyyyy!
Best of the Board
LET'S MEME MEAN TOM CREAN
Waldorf: Hey, what do you call a Vonleh when he's not getting buckets?
Crean: I don't know, what?
Waldorf: A Hollow-well! Oooohhohohoho!
Did I link this already above? I did didn't I? Again.
WHENCE THE BAND?
ThadMattasgoblin asked where the band ought to travel now that the traditional odd-year Notre Dame trip comes off the table and MSU away games are now the same year as Ohio State away games. ND was a perfect trip: early in the season, nice fans who like to make a show of appreciating old timey pageantry, etc.
The MSU one last year (a preview of the Queen show they later performed in Ann Arbor) put me off from ever wanting to waste a band trip on East Lansing again. Granted it was freezing and rainy and everyone was in a crappy mood, and the Spartan Stadium sound guys did them zero favors by screwing up the guitar level, but the big problem was the MSU fans booed them out.
It's bound to happen there and elsewhere, and can be avoided by not sending the band to highly hate-charged rivalry games in November (except Ohio State, where the mutual respect thing still holds). Good: Florida, Penn State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Indiana. Places to avoid: Rutgers, Illinois, Maryland, MSU.
FIRST TEAM ALL BEILEIN
Rodriguesqe* had a thought to put together a roster of B's best at Michigan. I think it's impossible to make an all-Beilein anything without including Pittsnogle. One man's opinion:
| Pos | 1st Team | 2nd Team |
|---|---|---|
| PG | Trey Burke | Darius Morris |
| Wing | Nik Stauskas | Mike Gansey |
| Wing | Zak Novak | Manny Harris |
| PF | Kevin Pittsnogle | DeShawn Sims |
| C | Mitch McGary | Darrell Barley |
Flip McGary and Pittsnogle around if you like—I thought putting him at the 4 gets his shooting back into play. I put Manny on the 2nd team because he's a ball hog and the rest of that team is set up well to distribute to him, plus I love what Novak brings to a lineup of Burke-Stauskas-Pittsnogle-McGary. Darrell Barley is a legend at Canisius. Gansey was the other impossibly efficient guy from Beilein's best West Virginia teams. Joe Alexander and De'Shawn Butler earn honorable mention from those squads.
* (This guy's profile said he joined 12/29/2013. A RichRod handle from last December?)
ETC. All MGoPets are Norfleet. This is right:
Your Moment of Zen:
Dakich is Michigan's very own Muppet.